re: "The Boot" from Abita

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What would be the next step for someone that enjoys a gose? I've only had one sixer of Rhinegeist Peach Dodo, but I thought it was really good. The first sip was obviously "different", but I found myself really enjoying it. How different are the sour beers?

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Well, until recently sours were kind of lumped into 1 category. Now there are Brett beers (more fruity, funky type beers), Goses, Berliner Weisse, Lambic, Kriek, etc...

If you can get your hands on anything from Grimm Artisan Ales, do so. They have all been great. I really like most if not all of Prairie's sour beers. Their funky gold series is very good.

Jolly Pumpkin has high acclaim. I think they are good, but i prefer prairie over Jolly Pumpkin Beers.

Cantillon is the gold standard, and you'll be very lucky to get some. Cantillon is the brewery name.

The Bruery makes some good stuff but they will charge you an arm and a leg for it, and because of that, i've only had maybe 1 or of their beers.

Drie Fonteinen is another traditional Lambic, like Cantillon, that is very high quality.

My suggestion would be to just go to a beer store or beer bar and ask someone (bartender, store owner) about good types of sour/brett beers.

I'll try and give you a better review of teh styles when i hvae a little mroe time.